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Immortality is conditional (1)
From today’s GraceEmail A sister from an independent Christian church in Idaho writes: “You mentioned a book you co-authored on the subject of final punishment, your part being to present the biblical...
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Twisted Scripture: Hebrews 12:23 by David Burge FDTL Iss 30
A reader writes Dear Mr. Burge, Could you help me understand a difficult text. I am a conditionalist like you, but I am having a really tough time making sense of Heb 12:23, specifically, the reference...
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Reincarnation by Edward Fudge
A gracEmail subscriber writes: “I am thinking that I served God in a previous life, and that is why I am drawn to him now. I would appreciate your comment if you have time.” * * * The doctrine of...
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The Golden Verse of Biblical Anthropology
Today’s post today from David Burge. This was written many months ago but recently published in the latest edition of the Maranatha Devotions which celebrates 150 years of the Advent Christian...
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The Unkillable Soul | Immortal Soul ?
Immortal Soul Versus Conditionalism Matthew 10:28 is a watershed text. It serves as a rope, and on either side of the rope is a group of well-meaning Christians tugging over the issue of human nature...
View ArticleWhat is the Soul by Robert F. Gardiner FDTL 48
Republished from the Bible Standard 1880. What is the soul? This is a question which has been asked in all ages; but the answers which they often gave or got have in many cases failed to convey the...
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Moses on the souls of animals by Jefferson Vann FDTL 48
Long before Plato ever said anything about the human soul, the Old Testament writers presented a consistent biblical anthropology. Augustine was biased toward platonic philosophy, even going so far as...
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Grudem on the Image of God in humanity
Dr Wayne Grudem is an American theologian who has had a significant impact on evangelical thought. His treatment on the concept of the image of God in humanity1 provides a helpful perspective and a...
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formed from the dust | Snips and snails
The nursery rhyme asks “What are little boys made of?” — and answers “Snips & snails & puppy dogs tails and such are little boys made of.”1 Little girls fare slightly better. They are made of...
View Articlelet my soul live
Let my soul live, and it shall praise You; And let Your judgments help me. (Psalm 119:175 NKJV). In a long acrostic poem which mostly praises the word of God, an unknown psalmist asks the LORD to keep...
View ArticleMatthew 10:28 and dualism | Is the soul Immortal ?
Is the soul immortal? Did Jesus say that when people kill our bodies, our souls go marching on? Matthew 10:28 is a problem for the traditional doctrine of hell. It’s one of the verses of Scripture that...
View ArticlePhysicalism / monism – are they implicit in conditional immortality?
{ a question republished from the forum ( which is now being archived)} One of the challenges in talking about conditional immortality with more traditional proponents of an immediate passage to heaven...
View ArticleHow we’re made colours everything
{ a question republished from the forum ( which is now being archived)} A sound understanding of our human constitution is so important. I would appreciate your thoughts on the following statement:...
View ArticleJesus referred to two deaths
{ a discussion republished from the forum ( which is now being archived)} When Martha said she knew that her brother Lazarus would rise again on the last day (when Jesus went to wake him from “sleep”...
View ArticleJoel Green: On Doing Without a Soul: A New Testament Perspective
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Did Paul Have an Out of Body Experience?
Did Paul talk about leaving his body and going to the third heaven? Although I’m familiar with the view that the Apostle Paul is relating an “out-of-body experience” at the outset of 2 Corinthians 12,...
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soul searching
I’m involved in a translation project now, which will take me a few years. As I go from text to text of scripture, it gives me opportunity to test my presuppositions about the meaning of certain...
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coaching for the mission in Jewish Galilee
The prophet Isaiah had predicted that the northern territories, once the possession of the tribes of Zebulun and Naphtali, would have a special place in God’s messianic plan. This land of Galilee, so...
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Is the Resurrection Necessary?
According to the New Testament, it’s the resurrection or nothing. There is no other way to have any existence after death. This means, among other things, that there is no conscious soul able to...
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Where did all the souls go?
Souls are on the way out. Not just in our culture or in science, where some Christians may suspect “naturalism” as the culprit, but souls are on the way out of our Bibles. This is because of the ways...
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